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Marine Renewable Energy
May 2009 The benefits of marine technologies within a diversified renewables mix – a report commissioned by the BWEA, conducted by Redpoint Energy, concluded that diversifying the renewable energy mix by including a greater proportion of wave and tidal stream energy would reduce requirements for back-up and reserve capacity, lower carbon emissions and save fuel. This could lead to cost savings of as much as 3.3% of the annual wholesale cost of electricity due to the increased mix diversity.
Over 450 people attended BWEA's sixth annual, and the world's largest, event dedicated to wave and tidal energy, sponsored by the South West RDA. Click here for more information. BWEA Wave & Tidal 2010 will take place on 4th March 2010 at the QEII Centre in London. Further details are available here. 29th April 2009 Supply Chain Seminar - The event sponsored by NaREC was the first event dedicated to securing the Marine Renewables Supply Chain. The event organised in response to BWEA member feed back involved technology and project developers from all areas of the supply chain. The seminar, hosted over 60 delegates from a wide range of industries discussing the common goal of maintaining the UK’s strong lead in this rapidly developing industry. The popularity of the event was evident by the room being full to capacity. For further information please click here. 5 November 2008 The Carbon Trust's Marine Energy Accelerator (MEA) aims to accelerate progress in cost reduction of marine energy (wave and tidal stream energy) technologies, to bring forward the time when marine energy becomes cost-competitive so that significant carbon emissions reductions are achieved. Click here for more information. 
Why Marine? Following from the huge popularity of 'Why Wind?' BWEA has produced a similar booklet intended to raise awareness of wave and tidal stream energy development around the UK. Click on the image to download in PDF format. July 2008 A BWEA 'Global Opportunity' presentation was given both to BERR at the last Marine Strategy Group meeting and to the Seawork 08 Conference http://www.seawork.com The presentation outlined the global view, UK advantage, 2008 technology deployment, ideas for government support, the commercial opportunities and benefits to UK plc. The presentation can be viewed here (PDF format).
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